Improved iron bedstead



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N.PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

Y UNITED STATES PATENT CEEIcE.

JAMES M. FRENCH, OF EAST CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED IRON BEDS'I'EAD.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,!63, dated December16, 18672.

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. FRENCH, a citizen ofthe United States ofAmerica, and a resident ot` East Cambridge, in4 the county ot' Middlesexand State ot Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Iron Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare the same to be t'ullydescribed in the ollowing specification and represented in the aocompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is atop view, Fig. 2 a sideelevation, and Eig. 3 a longitudinal section, of a bedstead provided orconstructed in accordance with my invention. Fie'. et is a top view, andFig. 5 is a side elevation, of one of its rails. Fig. 6 is a horizontalsection ot' part of one ot1 the rails, and part ot' the head or foottrame immediately adjacent thereto. Fig. 7 is an inner side elevationot' one of the head and foot trames.

The object I have had in view in making my invention was to produce astrong` and durable iron bedstcad, having its rails made of what isusually termed angle-iron. In order to effect this, I construct thebedstead with separate head and foot frames, and so that each ot themshall have two mortises for the reception ot tenons projecting from thetwo rails, and I also provide each of the rails alongside ot' each ot`its tenons with what may be termed an auxiliary overlapping bearer,77which, when the rail is inserted in one ofthe head and -'oot trames,runs alongside of or overlaps the inner surface ot' the part in whichthe mortise is formed, and abuts against the inner side of the adjacentcrossrail of the posts ot the trame, and by so doing operating not onlyto prevent the tenon from being` bent or broken, but to greatly stitt'enor render stable the whole. bedstead.

In the dra-wings, A A A A are thel bedstead posts, two ot' which at thehead and two ot' which at the foot of the bedstead are connectedtogether by an angle cross-bar, a, and three or any other suitablenumber of round rods, b b b, the wholebeing arranged as shown in thedrawings. Each post is madewith a J mortise, c, which projects inwardbeyond the angleiron bar o, as shown in the drawings, and is intended toreceive one ot' two tenons, d d, extended trom the ends ot' each ot' thetwo rails B B. Besides this tenon,there is at each end of each ot thesaid rails B B a pro jection or bearer, c, which, when the tenon iswithin its mortise, shoots by or overlaps the niortise projection orbears against it and abuts against the angle-iron bar o, the wholebeing' as shown in thedrawings. A pin passed through each tenon and itsmortise will sutice to hold therails and the posts ot'the head and footframes together. Each crossbar a is provided with a series of buttons orstuds,f

fj', which serve to connect the saching or its equivalent to thebedstead. It' necessary, each of the side rails maybe supplied withsimilar devices or their equivalents.

By constructing the bedstead in manner as above described I am enabledto make a very substantial and durable one ot'iron. Furthermore, each ofthe bearers c c operates to prevent its tenon from being bent or brokenott' in a lateral direction.

I do not claim the attachingof the post and rail ot' a bedstead by atenon and mortise, as I am well aware that this is not new; nor do `Iclaim making a rail ot what is termed angle-iron.

I claim- The improved bedstead as made, not only with its angle-ironrails B B and head and foot frames connected by tenons and mortises, butwith each ot the said rails furnished with bearers c e, constructed andarranged with respect to the tenons and inortises and the. lower bars ofthe head and foot frames in manner and so as to operate therewithsubstantially as speciljed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature.

JAMES M. FRENCH.

itnessesz It. H. EDDY, I". P. HALE, Jr.

